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A006566 Dodecahedral numbers: n(3n-1)(3n-2)/2.
(Formerly M5089)
17
0, 1, 20, 84, 220, 455, 816, 1330, 2024, 2925, 4060, 5456, 7140, 9139, 11480, 14190, 17296, 20825, 24804, 29260, 34220, 39711, 45760, 52394, 59640, 67525, 76076, 85320, 95284, 105995, 117480, 129766, 142880, 156849, 171700, 187460, 204156 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,3

COMMENTS

Schlaefli symbol for this polyhedron: {5,3}

A093485 = first differences; A124388 = second differences; third differences = 27. - Reinhard Zumkeller (reinhard.zumkeller(AT)gmail.com), Oct 30 2006

One of the 5 Platonic polyhedral (tetrahedral, cube, octahedral, dodecahedral and icosahedral) numbers (cf. A053012). [From Daniel Forgues (squid(AT)zensearch.com), May 14 2010]

REFERENCES

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=0..1000

Tanya Khovanova, Recursive Sequences

Hyun Kwang Kim, On Regular Polytope Numbers

S. Plouffe, Approximations de S\'{e}ries G\'{e}n\'{e}ratrices et Quelques Conjectures, Dissertation, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.

S. Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions and Conjectures, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.

FORMULA

G.f.: x(1+16x+10x^2)/(1-x)^4. a(n) = A000292(3n-3) = A054776(n)/6 = n*A060544(n).

a(n) = C(n+2,3) + 16 C(n+1,3) + 10 C(n,3)

MAPLE

A006566:=(1+16*z+10*z**2)/(z-1)**4; [Conjectured by S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

MATHEMATICA

Table[n(3n-1)(3n-2)/2, {n, 0, 100}] (* From Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Apr 13 2011 *)

PROG

(PARI) a(n)=n*(3*n-1)*(3*n-2)/2

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A044207 A044588 A172221 * A205312 A154077 A027849

Adjacent sequences:  A006563 A006564 A006565 * A006567 A006568 A006569

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Henry Bottomley (se16(AT)btinternet.com), Nov 23 2001

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